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Friday, April 29, 2016

Y is for Yippee! I have a celebrity in the house!

Okay, I hope this will suffice for a Y word this year. I was going to save this for later, but I’m
so happy my little fur baby got his mug printed in a magazine that I just had
to share this.

Back in February, a local magazine here asked for submissions
of spring pet pictures for an upcoming issue.
Naturally, being the person I am, my brain went into overdrive. There
had to be some way I could enter this contest.
How could I let this opportunity pass me by?

After thinking on this a few days, I made a trip to the
dollar store and the craft store to get some ideas. I knew the only one I could enter in this
contest was Raven because he always indulges all my whims of fancy and will
pose for me. The other cats won’t hold
still long enough.

I decided my spring picture had to be another hat because
Raven likes them and of course we’ve all heard of spring bonnets. How I wished they made cat-size hats in the
party stores. But alas, nothing like
that was to be found. So it was to the
drawing board for me after I collected a few things at the dollar store and
local party store.

Here are the pet pages in the magazine

It didn’t take me too long to whip up my creation. By late afternoon I had my picture and got
busy downloading my camera card so I could submit the entry in time. The next day I had an email in my email inbox
thanking me for my entry and telling me it was cute.

Then the wait began.

I had no idea which month the pet’s pictures would be
posted. When the April issue came out, I
began to investigate because we no longer receive the magazines free with the
newspaper. We have to pick them up in
newsstands around town.

Raven in his spring hat

I got on the net and did a search for an online copy. Not finding any pet photos in April, I looked
at the March issue and there on page 27 was my angel in living color. I had to laugh because it really is a silly
hat (plus I was thrilled to see him in the magazine.) The girl called him a she instead of a he
(probably because of the flowery bonnet he had on). What self-respecting boy would wear
that? But I forgive her. She probably thinks I left the “s” out of my
email and meant to say she. I’ll give
her the benefit of a doubt.

So then several emails and a week later, I finally obtained
two print copies of this magazine, one for me and one for the lady at PAWS
where I adopted Raven. After I told her
about it, she wanted one of the magazines too.

You'd probably think I have way too much free time on my hands if I can work in making a hat for a cat. I really don't, but I couldn't let that opportunity pass me by. I made him the hat and he posed for me. I was so thrilled he got published too because I really wasn't expecting it.

No, Sunni! This is really wonderful! What pet owner or photographer wouldn't be thrilled to be published in a magazine?! Handsome boy, by the way!Revisit the Tender Years with me at Life & Faith in Caneyhead